Em & Sia

[Amy3]

49 minutes ago, Robwin said:

Very unhygienic just laying on the mattress at least you can wash the sheets but the mattress no. Not good.

I fully agree 👍🏻I see this all the time. Well, I used too anyways. But the point remains, this is nasty and should never happen. Not worth an infection, get a fitted sheet!!

 

[jabbath1987]

So two days Em & Bob are away? 😂

[letsdothis]

1 hour ago, Robwin said:

Very unhygienic just laying on the mattress at least you can wash the sheets but the mattress no. Not good.

 

18 minutes ago, Amy3 said:

I fully agree 👍🏻I see this all the time. Well, I used too anyways. But the point remains, this is nasty and should never happen. Not worth an infection, get a fitted sheet!!

 

It's just a sheet. There's nothing magic about it. It's not waterproof. It's
just a thin piece of cloth. If anything wet gets on the sheet, it's going to
soak through to the mattress in half a second. 😊

[Amy3]

2 minutes ago, letsdothis said:

 

It's just a sheet. There's nothing magic about it. It's not waterproof. It's
just a thin piece of cloth. If anything wet gets on the sheet, it's going to
soak through to the mattress in half a second. 😊

The sheet offers a protection barrier between you and the nasty microscopic bugs in the mattress! For reals!

[letsdothis]

29 minutes ago, Amy3 said:

The sheet offers a protection barrier between you and the nasty microscopic bugs in the mattress! For reals!

When you guys said "unhygienic" and "infection", my first thought was
of germs and bacteria, which are microscopic. When you said "bugs in
the mattress", I think of bed bugs, which are not microscopic - I looked
it up. Most things microscopic would be able to slip through the fibers
of the sheet. Things that are not microscopic, probably would not fit
through the sheet fibers.

So, if you're talking about bed bugs, Amy you're probably right, although
they can still crawl out from under the sheet to get to that warm body
they're looking for. As for things microscopic, a sheet most likely won't
offer much protection.

For wetness, however, a sheet gives no protection, at all. The mattress
is going to get wet, almost guaranteed, unless there's something water-
proof under the sheet. And along with the wetness, goes anything micro-
scopic.

[Amy3]

I don’t think so. A bed sheet can be cleaned regularly and most likely it does place a barrier between the bug and germ filled mattress and the top of the sheet. It’s. It just bed bugs, there are dust mites all over a mattress.  

[Robwin]

41 minutes ago, letsdothis said:

 

For wetness, however, a stheet gives no protection, at all. The mattress
is going to get wet, almost guaranteed, unless there's something water-
proof under the sheet. And along with the wetness, goes anything micro-
scopic.

Bed sheets are used as a layer of protection in the same way as people wear underwear and wash and change them regularly. Don't know about you but most people wash and change their sheets regularly as they provide a helpful protection against sweat and skin shedding etc. Your argument about wetness is rather silly really after all if you piss your pants I agree nothing will stop the soaking but most people do have a high level of personal hygene which includes bed sheet changing regularly, I bet you don't sleep on the mattress and nor do most people.

[letsdothis]

6 minutes ago, Amy3 said:

I don’t think so. A bed sheet can be cleaned regularly and most likely it does place a barrier between the bug and germ filled mattress and the top of the sheet. It’s. It just bed bugs, there are dust mites all over a mattress.  

I agreed with you before. A fitted sheet offers a semi-protective barrier
against things that are non-microscopic, like bed bugs. But, they can still
crawl out from under the sheet to get to you. Dust mites, while microscopic,
feed on dead skin cells, not humans. They are harmless to most people and 
don't carry diseases.

Microscopic things, such as germs, viruses, bacteria, etc., can usually fit
through the fibers of a sheet. For example, viruses are so small, it takes
an electron microscope to see them with the naked eye.

[Amy3]

6 minutes ago, letsdothis said:

I agreed with you before. A fitted sheet offers a semi-protective barrier
against things that are non-microscopic, like bed bugs. But, they can still
crawl out from under the sheet to get to you. Dust mites, while microscopic,
feed on dead skin cells, not humans. They are harmless to most people and 
don't carry diseases.

Microscopic things, such as germs, viruses, bacteria, etc., can usually fit
through the fibers of a sheet. For example, viruses are so small, it takes
an electron microscope to see them with the naked eye.

Yes, things can get through the sheet and time is factor, that’s why one should wash them regularly. It does offer a temporary barrier to the extent that it can. It’s a very bad idea to lay on a mattress with no sheets. 

[letsdothis]

3 minutes ago, Robwin said:

Bed sheets are used as a layer of protection in the same way as people wear underwear and wash and change them regularly. Don't know about you but most people wash and change their sheets regularly as they provide a helpful protection against sweat and skin shedding etc. Your argument about wetness is rather silly really after all if you piss your pants I agree nothing with stop the soaking but most people do have a high level of personal hygene which includes bed sheet changing regularly, I bet you don't sleep on the mattress and nor do most people.

In a nutshell, all I was saying is if a sheet gets wet, the mattress is
going to get wet with whatever fluid is on the sheet long before you
can get the sheet off the mattress. Those fluids will likely carry with
them, any germs, bacteria, etc., that may be in those fluids. So, a
sheet offers only partial protection to both the person laying on it
and the mattress.

And, most things microscopic are going to be able to get through a
sheet both ways almost like water would flow through it.

Of course, if there's no sheet, there's not even a semi-protective
barrier. Whatever is on the mattress is going to be on you.

[Robwin]

11 minutes ago, letsdothis said:

I agreed with you before. A fitted sheet offers a semi-protective barrier
against things that are non-microscopic, like bed bugs. But, they can still
crawl out from under the sheet to get to you. Dust mites, while microscopic,
feed on dead skin cells, not humans. They are harmless to most people and 
don't carry diseases.

Microscopic things, such as germs, viruses, bacteria, etc., can usually fit
through the fibers of a sheet. For example, viruses are so small, it takes
an electron microscope to see them with the naked eye.

I don't honestly know what you are arguing about or even want to come to that. You either have personal hygene or you don't full stop.

We are not saying sheets provide 100% protection nor does underwear, seat belts don't provide 100% protection either but we wear them so if you want to carry on this stupid argument by all means do but just keep it to yourself please.

[letsdothis]

2 minutes ago, Robwin said:

I don't honestly know what you are arguing about or even want to come to that. You either have personal hygene or you don't full stop.

We are not saying sheets provide 100% protection nor does underwear, seat belts don't provide 100% protection either but we wear them so if you want to carry on this stupid argument by all means do but just keep it to yourself please.

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Come on, Rob, from what I've read, I know you to be better than that.
At least I kept what I said, civil and not insulting. And, like you, I have
a right to offer my opinion if I so choose.

In your first post, when you said, "...at least you can wash the sheets
but the mattress no," you indicated the sheet offers some protection 
to the mattress, regardless of how much. I just didn't happen to agree
with that.

A sheet is going to offer very little protection to the mattress. Any
bodily fluids that get on the sheet are going to get on the mattress
long before you wash it or even get it off the bed.